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The Fixers Who Buried Old Hollywood’s Biggest Scandals
Atlas Obscura ^ | March 17, 2017 | Kristin Hunt

Posted on 03/20/2017 3:19:48 PM PDT by NYer

Edited on 03/20/2017 7:16:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Howard Strickling’s phone was always ringing. First it might be Jean Harlow, panicking that William Powell had gotten her pregnant. Then it might be a security guard, informing him that he’d removed a belligerent Spencer Tracy from yet another bar. Once it was Marlene Dietrich, distraught after discovering John Gilbert’s dead body.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Religion; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abortion; hollywood; rape; scandal; weird
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To: yarddog
During the 1st and 2nd seasons, the Adventures of Superman was quite noir-like compared to the rest of the series.

After that, they decided to gear toward a younger audience.

21 posted on 03/20/2017 5:45:21 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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Hollyweird needs to be burned to the ground.


22 posted on 03/20/2017 5:52:05 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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“If Los Angeles is not the one authentic rectum of civilization, then I am no anatomist. Any time you want to go out again and burn it down, count me in.” ―H. L. Mencken
23 posted on 03/20/2017 5:58:01 PM PDT by Crossfeed
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To: NYer “If Los Angeles is not the one authentic rectum of civilization, then I am no anatomist. Any time you want to go out again and burn it down, count me in.” ―H. L. Mencken
24 posted on 03/20/2017 6:11:25 PM PDT by Crossfeed
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I know many people like to beleive we are a more immoral society today, but sometimes I wonder. Being a student of history, and talking to my friends parents (who grew up in the 50s and 60s) it just seems that people hid it and were ashamed when caught. Now nobody hides it, they actually flaunt it.


25 posted on 03/20/2017 6:18:54 PM PDT by OIFVeteran
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bump


26 posted on 03/20/2017 8:43:55 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: OIFVeteran

If America were one person, it would be the happy church goer, who has decent kids, a nice income, says they are Christian, yet sins like a heathen. They believe that while they are not perfect, they are better than nearly everyone else. They are the best person and family they know, and damn proud of it.

The truth is, we are not any better than those who worship Baal, or practice witchcraft.. We just think we are, and that somehow makes us worse because we were chosen and blessed by our Creator. Justified by his Son, and we throw it all away in an orgy of lust and perversion.

Holly wood is part of Satanic rituals, what would anyone think was meant to happen there?


27 posted on 03/21/2017 9:06:41 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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